Linux backups with tar - beating the 2 gig limit

I have been working on backing up some data using tar. But I
have ran in to the 2 gig limitation on file size. Does anyone know
of any flags you can use with tar to break the backup into multiple files?
I have considered using the -M --multi-volume option, I understand this
is used for tape devices, so when one tape is full it will write to
another tape device. Does anyone know perhaps if you can use this option
to create your backups in multiple volumes to the hard drive instead of a
tape device.

Thanks, w00t

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w00t <w00t@valuelinx.net> wrote:
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> I have been working on backing up some data using tar. But I
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Either your tar/distro is rather old, or you have run into
another problem. What are the error messages you get?

What is the output of:

strings `which tar` | grep 64

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Michael Heiming wrote:
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> w00t <w00t@valuelinx.net> wrote:
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>> I have been working on backing up some data using tar. But I
>> have ran in to the 2 gig limitation on file size. Does anyone know[/color]
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Hello!,

I think you have to try the command split

It's very useful,


Best Regards!,

Antonio.

P.D: It's possible that your problem with 2 GB size limit it's a filesystem
type limit (ext2) not from tar command.
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> Either your tar/distro is rather old, or you have run into
> another problem. What are the error messages you get?
>
> What is the output of:
>
> strings `which tar` | grep 64
>
> BTW
> Please consider setting up a Followup-To: and don't ask for email
> replies only, there won't be any answer in the archives then, not
> very nice to people searching the archives.
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